Cannot activate Run/Debug in Nova

[carlca]

Hello Gwyneth, I've just downloaded the demo of Nova and have installed your extension along with the other two Go extensions. Visually it all looks good, although I notice that it seems to be Spicer's Go Tools which provides the syntax highlighting.

The thing that has me stumped is how to enable Run and Debug. Ideally, the debugging would be done in conjunction with Derek Parker's Delve tool, but at the moment all the useful options are greyed out.

Is it something blindingly obvious that I have missed or is the ability to actually run programs only available in the paid version of Nova? I can't imagine that this is the case, but...

Thanks in advance for any clue that you can give me!

Cheers,
Carl

[willie]

FWIW, the last time I used the extension in Nova, I had to set up build/run using Projects > Tasks > Edit Tasks and substituting the appropriate go command. Perhaps the plug-in and Nova have evolved since then, but I know for sure that will work. As for delve, I do not know.

[carlca]

Thanks for the reply @willie, sadly, I cannot even do that. This is what my Tasks sub menu looks like...

This is why I wondered if the disabled menu items were due to my having a demo version.

[carlca]

Okay, I think I've found the right place to set up a new task, but when I try to set up a build task, I cannot figure out the simplest thing. This doesn't work...

[carlca]

Seems that I have to explicitly name the source file, so in my case go build path.go worked. It's a start...

[willie]

Try go build . and go run .

[carlca]

Of course! It's just shell script, after all. Thanks!

As for the debugging, I'm trying to get this front-end for Delve working...
Delve: https://github.com/go-delve/delve
Front End for Delve: https://github.com/aarzilli/gdlv

I've recently moved to the brave new world of the Mac Mini M1 and macOS 12.3 Monterey and it's easy to download the AMD64 version of go instead of the ARM64 version. All good fun and games 😉

[carlca]

This is what I wrote just now on the GDlv website...
I had same problem just now. I was able to solve it in 3 steps:

[1] Download and install the ARM64 installer package from https://golang.org/ - https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.darwin-arm64.pkg
[2] Run go install github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@latest from the command-line.
[3] Run go install github.com/aarzilli/gdlv@latest from the command line.

Step 1 ensures that you have the M1 compatible version of Go.
Steps 2 and 3 ensure that the tools, Delve and GDlv, are built and installed using the M1 version of Go.

[carlca]

This is the aforementioned GDlv in action. I'm just firing it up from the build in Nova terminal with gdlv debug...